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| Johann Sebastian Bach - Life |
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| Northern-Central Germany, little known as a composer, came from a very musically talented family, Baroque Period ends with his death |
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| Johann Sebastian Bach - Music |
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kantor (music director), 200 cantatas, preferred the fugue, Baroque Period ends with his death, Writing a 20 minute cantata every week for 5 years, Full-time teacher as well,
Court Organist: Begins in Arnstadt (1703-07), Muhlhausen (1707-08)
Promoted to Court Composer: Welmar (1708-17), Cothen (1717-23), Leipzig (1723-50)
Brandenburg Concerto |
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| Rhythmic vitality and attractive melody is easy to respond to with pleasure, Something and Fugue, |
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Ripieno
Concertino
Ritornello |
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Large Orchestra
Small Group of Soloists
Refrain |
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| Georg Friderich Handel - Life |
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| Traveled alot, Worked for George, the Elector of Hanover, then went to England, (fun story) |
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| Georg Friderich Handel - Music |
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| Handel was very versatile, he writes things in Italian style and German and now English, with a hornpipe, Handel had a lot of success with the oratorios, Messiah (no plot, just a series of lyrics, not really characters), word painting, two-measure phrases, repetition of motifs, very stable harmonies, and block chords, Water Music |
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| Handel's Messiah is an example of a(n) |
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| "Is the great chain, that draws all to agree,And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee?" |
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| Which of the following was one of the specific targets of Pope's criticisms? |
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| What key word best describes the prevailing attitude of the Rococo? |
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| Indifference, fantasy, light-heartedness, anti-Baroque |
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| Compared to the Baroque period in visual art, the Rococo was more ________? |
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| What phrase best describes Jonathan Swift's attitude toward humanity? |
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| Swift's "A Modest Proposal" would most accurately be described as |
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| People should think for themselves, Diderot, Jean d'Alambert, we are inherently good, |
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| In addition to being an important philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also ________. |
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| A symphony by Mozart in a minor key would most likely have been influenced by which literary style? |
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| The notion that women from the underclasses of European society could be more intelligent and clever than the aristocracy was expressed explicitly in __________. |
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| Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro |
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| The "surprise" in Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony is an unexpected _______. |
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| Which of the following composers had the greatest direct influence on Haydn's oratorios? |
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| The French Realist movement in art of the middle of the 19th century was, by definition, concerned mostly with ________. |
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| everyday and commonplace subjects |
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| Which of the following artists emphasized "art for art's sake," was influenced by early moves toward Impressionism, and gave his paintings musical titles? |
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| A distinguishing feature of the "Portrait of Miss Van Buren" by Thomas Eakins is ______. |
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| the casual and candid pose of the sitter |
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| Religious art(remember Temple) |
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| Romantic Art, Hay maker and Sleeping Girl, Lady Countess Howe - landscapes in the background |
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| Sacred texts set to music - Baroque |
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oratorios
Psalms of David
Baroque
Girolamo Frescobaldi - greatest organ virtuoso |
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| rococo - indifference on faces of ladies, did portraits (for ward menu) |
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Love Letters
Rococo
Scandalous Love Affair stuff |
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Naked People
(Little more than mounds of pink flesh) |
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| dramatic lighting, chiaroscuro, Baroque |
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Baroque: loud, dramatic, intense
Rococo: fantastical, lighthearted
Neoclassical: Roman-related, freedom, revolution
Romanticism: death, emotion, nature, individualistic |
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The Swimming Hole (naked men)
Always people - the surgery tables etc.
Used realism as a means of achieving objective truths |
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More detail in his nature landscape paintings - ENGLAND
observation of detail - atmosphere and presence |
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8,6,8,6
ALWAYS
American Literature
Wrote about love and death
Famous for her death poems – positive views on death
She wasn’t famous until after death
Questioned faith/religion |
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| Which of the following is NOT a feature of Beethoven's EARLY style? |
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| free and striking liberties within the context of awesome structure |
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| Which feature of the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, is the most "fantasia"-like? |
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| What unifies all four movements of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5? |
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| A single rhythmic motif occurs across all movements |
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| In which genre are you most likely to see an example of the principle of Gesamtkunstwerk? |
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| An artist who paints what he sees directly in a landscape, rather than what he knows intellectually is there, would most accurately be classified as a(n) ________. |
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| Which of the following is NOT one of the mid-19th century advancements in piano technology that influenced Liszt's compositions? |
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| division of black and white keys |
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| Identify one general feature that distinguishes Schubert's lieder from Schumann's. |
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| Schumann often includes piano preludes and postludes that comment on the text |
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| Who among the following composers wrote more program music than the others? |
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| a short piano solo with a loosely evocative title |
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| rapid harmonic rhythm , contrapuntal (imitative), separate lines of music interwoven, linear, continuous, da-da-da-da, few pauses, few breaks |
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| repetition, slow harmonic rhythm, delineated phrases and maintains the tonic harmony |
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Essay on Man
Stanzas, always talking about Man
Tory Satirist
Cautious Optimist
believed humans were innately good |
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| Three Women Adorning a Term of Hymen, Neoclassical, |
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| sculpture Neoclassical - Napoleon and Wife |
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| Shortly After the marriage, social reform through paintings, Raft of the Medusa |
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| movement, Raft of the Medusa |
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| The Death of Sardanapalus, Massacre at Chios - DEAD people (dead-delacroix) |
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| How does Mozart's Symphony #40 in G minor demonstrate the mature Classical Style? |
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| 4 movements, color, color, emotion, gloom |
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| Mid-Century Opera changed how? |
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Returning the chorus – choir
Music should serve the text
Talking out against social norms |
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1st Movement - Sonata Allegro
2nd Movement - Slower (lyrical)
3rd Movement - Minuet and Trio
4th Movement - Lighthearted finale (Rondo, T&V) - like a dollup of daisy on top… |
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- Lived in Austria
- One of the most celebrated composers
- Lived very long
- Super Cool.
- Struggled as a free-lancer,
- Capell Master - nobleman
- then had London Journeys |
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| Identify Dickens’s main contributions to the new style of novel-writing |
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| He put the social commentary in a story, less intense |
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| Three Hermits: Believe in god on your own terms |
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| Tolstoy (Russian) (Pacifist) |
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| First Real American Writer |
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| Understand which traits in Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 13 are traditional and which are innovative. |
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TRADITIONAL: sonata form, rondo
INNOVATIVE: 3 parts
connection of motifs – shows up in all movements |
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| Piano, Private, not as experimental |
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| Public, composer, more experimental |
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| French Neoclassical Painter, AWESOME |
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| Rococo artist. Portrait artist, based in Venice. Worked with pastels. |
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| neoclassical architect. Applies gothic engineering to neoclassical-style buildings. |
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| philosopher, writer. Enlightenment belief in the innate goodness of mankind. Worked on the Encyclopédie. Believed that civilization’s influence was not always good. Amateur musician. |
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| classical musician. Along with Haydn, develops the High Classical style of music. Innovator in opera. |
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| Romantic architect. Known for his Paris Opera House. Designed to appeal to the wealthy middle classes. Very ornate, richly decorated. |
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| That's where he ended up at the end of his life, died there, wrote his last 3 symphonies there, etc. |
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| Tyger, mystic, songs of innocence, songs of experience, |
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| Shelley - a poem about a broken sculpture... in the middle of a desert...dream-like...romantic |
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| Weird guy - GIRODET-TROISON |
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| Artist's Studio (romantic) |
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| Pope was against Commercialism |
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| □ "I pondered, therefore, with out compass, no guide but an inexperienced pilot…show me truth and I will hold her fast." |
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| Probably the greatest mind of the 18th Century |
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Voltaire "ecrasez l'infame"
Violently against the church - fostered superstition |
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| style of feeling or sensitivity |
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| Mozart WROTE A STURM AND DRANG SYMPHONY |
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- Rapid contrast
- Minor key
- Unusual extensions, fragmentary, but all within a framework of regularity |
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| Hayden and Mozart pushed against these restraints a lot |
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1. Music should serve the text
2. Only use the musical forms that agree with the drama
3. Eliminate showy ornament
4. Lessen the contrast between recitative and aria (arioso, accompanied recitative) |
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| Religious text, written for unknown person |
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| - Lower class, but mostly SOCIAL COMMENTARY |
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| Impressionist, AMERICAN artist |
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